Intel Lion Cove P-core Microarchitecture Explained
6/04/2024Welcome to Season 4 of Architecture All Access!
Architecture All Access is a master class technology series, featuring Senior Intel Technical Leaders taking an educational approach in explaining the historical impact and future innovations in their technical domains.
For Season 4, we are diversifying the coverage of Architecture All Access by focusing on three separate content tracks:
1) Architecture All Access: IP Insights, where we will provide architectural animations to explain our main IPs.
2) Architecture All Access: Live Lectures, where we provide presentations from our Lunar Lake Intel Technology Tour.
2) Architecture All Access: Master classes. This is our usual educational content that helps connect architectures with the usage models they benefit in an easy to understand manner.
With our new P-core microarchitecture, codename: Lion Cove, our goal was deliver a step-function in performance- and area-efficiency for client SoCs. We wanted to overhaul the P-core microarchitecture, not just to achieve a meaningful uplift in performance, but also to remove some fundamental microarchitectural roadblocks and lay the foundation to scale further in subsequent P-core generations. Finally, we decided to modernize the way we design Intel’s P-cores to accelerate the pace of innovation going forward and better cater to our customers. In this episode, we provide a flyover animation of the Lion Cove microarchitecture.
Architecture All Access is a master class technology series, featuring Senior Intel Technical Leaders taking an educational approach in explaining the historical impact and future innovations in their technical domains.
For Season 4, we are diversifying the coverage of Architecture All Access by focusing on three separate content tracks:
1) Architecture All Access: IP Insights, where we will provide architectural animations to explain our main IPs.
2) Architecture All Access: Live Lectures, where we provide presentations from our Lunar Lake Intel Technology Tour.
2) Architecture All Access: Master classes. This is our usual educational content that helps connect architectures with the usage models they benefit in an easy to understand manner.
With our new P-core microarchitecture, codename: Lion Cove, our goal was deliver a step-function in performance- and area-efficiency for client SoCs. We wanted to overhaul the P-core microarchitecture, not just to achieve a meaningful uplift in performance, but also to remove some fundamental microarchitectural roadblocks and lay the foundation to scale further in subsequent P-core generations. Finally, we decided to modernize the way we design Intel’s P-cores to accelerate the pace of innovation going forward and better cater to our customers. In this episode, we provide a flyover animation of the Lion Cove microarchitecture.